Wire Ring Tutorial: Stackable Style

1. Introduction: Welcome to this Wire Jewelry Tutorial. Once you have finished watching the video, and if you created the ring, I would love to see your design. So please share that in the comments or in the project section. If you don't follow me already, you can find me across most social media platforms at Katie Rose Creates, and you can find me on Skillshare, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and the Threadsap. If you found this tutorial helpful, I would love to have you check out my other videos where you can find more wire jewelry tutorials. Thanks so much for watching. And now let's jump into creating this wire ring. 2. The Ring: stackable style: Ring is a great way to showcase not only some lovely beads, but also the wire itself. For our materials, we will be using an 18 gauge solid brass wire to create the band of the ring. Then we will be using a 22 gauge wire to create that wrapping on the ring. Next, I chose some four millimeter sed beads. I'm using a size eight ring manual for the ring today, and then we will also be using a file as well as a ruler. For our pliers, we have the Nylon jaw pliers. We also have a pair of wire cutters, and then we will be using some chain nose pliers. To begin, we will straighten out a length of the 18 gauge wire in our Nylon jaw pliers. For a size eight ring, I need about 2.5 " of wire. We will need to trim it, but it's always better to have a little extra wire than not enough. Holding the wire at the 2.5 inch mark, we can then use our wire cutters and snip it off to length. Next, we're going to place the wire onto the ring mandrel. We need to curve the wire onto the mandrel and shape it so that we know exactly how much wire we need to trim off. We want the ends of wire to meet exactly flush, so we have to curve the wire so that we know how much wire we need to cut off. Using the cushion handle of a pair of fliers works really well to press down the ends of wire. Now that we have shaped the wire, we can see how much of it is overlapping and then we can use our wire cutters to snip off the extra wire so that the ends of the wire may exactly flush. Make sure that you are holding the wire tightly on the ring mandril so that it is well seated so that you know exactly how much wire you need to cut off. Now that we have the ring to size, we are going to take the file and make sure we take our time rounding over and smoothing both ends of the wire. Next, I want to take the chinos pliers to bend both ends of the wire. This is to help those ends match up with the curvature of the rest of the ring. Holding the wire firmly in the very tip of the chain noose pliers, gently bend it over until it looks like it matches the rest of the ring. Then we can go in with our fingers and gently press the whole ring together, slightly over bending it so that as the wire naturally springs back, the ends will meet flush. Now we are going to take the 22 gauge wire and straighten out a length of it with the Nylon jaw pliers. Holding the 22 gauge wire against the band of the ring, we're going to leave about a quarter to a half inch sticking out, and then we're going to begin wrapping that 22 gauge wire around the band of the ring. Squeeze the wrap together as you go from end to end so that it is a tight coil. Using the chainospliers, we're going to grasp the end of wire and pull it tightly to tighten it securely onto the band of the ring. Continue wrapping the wire around until it is too stiff to use our fingers, then we can go with the chainospliers and finish wrapping it, tightening it down on the band of the ring. You can make these coils as wide or as narrow as you would like. I went around about three or four times and I'm going to do that for each coil that I make. Once we are satisfied with the length of the coil, we will then take the wire cutters and clip off the wire. Then using the chain nose pliers again, we want to tighten down that end of wire that we just clipped off. Then if our coil is sliding around like this one is here, we need to make sure that we tighten it down securely with our chain nose pliers. Pressing down the coil from the sides, as well as end to end helps secure the coil onto the ring. Now that that wire is secured on the ring, we can add our first bead. Now we can make a matching wrap on the other side of the bead. You can either wrap the wire by placing it right next to the bead and wrapping away from the bead, or you can place it on the ring a little bit away from the bead and then wrap the wire down towards the bead. I like to use the chain nose pliers on the first wrap around to pull both ends of the wire very tightly so that that wire is secured onto the band of the ring. Then using the chain nosepliers, we can finish wrapping that wire around the ring. If you would like the coil to be open, you can certainly leave it that way, but I like to squeeze the coil from end to end so that it's tightened together. When the second coil matches the length of the first one, we'll then take the wire cutters and clip off the wire. Then with a chain of pliers, we need to tighten down and secure that end of wire so it's not sticking out. Now we can add the next bead. We're simply going to repeat this process until we have added as many beads as we want. Add the bead, and then create another wrap to secure it onto the ring. Wrapping the wire around with our fingers and then grabbing the chains piers to help secure and tighten that coil onto the ring until it is the same width as the other coils. If we come to the end of the wire and the coil is not wide enough, we can then slide the coil up to the bead, and then holding it tightly in the pliers, we can wrap the wire around as many times as we need till it is the correct length. Then we'll take the wire cutters and snip off the wire and then tighten down the end with the chain nose pliers. Then repeating this process until we have added as many beads as we want. I chose to do three beads, so I needed to create four coils to secure those beads onto the ring. You want to make sure that the outermost wrappings are the most secure on the ring, as these are the ones that will hold everything else on. The wraps that are in between the beads don't necessarily have to be tight onto the ring because they are inside of the beads and they are inside those outermost wrappings. When the last coil matches all the others, we're going to clip off the extra wire and then tighten down the end with the chain nose pliers. Then using the file, we want to go over both of those wrappings on either end of the ring to make sure that everything is smooth. Once we have finished filing, we can go back with our fingers and check the shape of the ring if necessary. Now you have finished the ring. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time. 3. Outtro: Katrina here to say thank you again for watching my video. If you would do me a favor, it would be super helpful if you left a review and comments, letting me know how this video went for you, ways that I might be able to improve these videos for you, as well as ideas on what you might like to see next. If you want to see more wire jewelry tutorials, be sure to go check out the rest of the videos on my page. That's it for now. I'll catch you next time.